Creating a headless slave node in Hudson

Generally the Hudson builds are tied up to a slave node. The Slave node can be launched in two ways

        1. As a JNLP client in windows
        2. Via SSH on a Linux machine

Since, the Hudson is generally on Linux Machines, this article focuses on creating a new slave node for Hudson.

1. Navigate to  Hudson home page in your web browser.
2. Click on 'Manage Hudson'.
3. Select 'Managed Nodes'
4. Select 'Create New Node'
5. Provide an appropriate name, click Ok

6. Enter the number of Executors. This is required for the number of concurrent executions to be done
7. Enter the directory where the Hudson Job artifacts should go in
7. In the Launch drop down,
              a. Select Launch Via  Windows slave agent with JNLP
              b. Select Launch Slave via SSH. Click on 'Advanced' to type in additional fields from where the Slave node has to be launched. Type in IP Address, username, password and other fields. Click 'Save'.

Now, the slave node is ready and we can tie up Hudson jobs to this node ;-)